Quotes about past
past light new-orleans
We wander through old streets, and pause before the age stricken houses; and, strange to say, the magic past lights them up.
past principles batteries
Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's high-minded principles and preoccupations have ceased to function, but before they have been replaced with a totally new system of values. It represents a moment of suspension before the batteries are recharged for the new millennium, an acknowledgment that preceding the future is a strange and hybrid interregnum that might be called the last gasp of the past. Gilbert Adair
past order ideas
This world of ours is a new world, in which the unit of knowledge, the nature of human communities, the order of society, the order of ideas, the very notions of society and culture have changed, and will not return to what they have been in the past. What is new is new, not because it has never been there before, but because it has changed in quality. J. Robert Oppenheimer
past election break
Women say that my election represents a cultural break with the past - a past of sexism, of misogyny. Michelle Bachelet
past stills
The past is still, for us, a place that is not safely settled. Michael Ondaatje
past years gone-away
Back 20 years ago, there was a division between movie actors and TV actors. That's kind of gone away. People who have had a lot of success in movies in the past now want to be on TV. There used to be much more of a quality division between TV and movies, and that's kind of not the case anymore. Michael Imperioli
past political wish
Political utopias are a form of nostalgia for an imagined past projected onto the future as a wish. Michael Ignatieff
past stories never-ending-story
A story can be new and yet tell about olden times. The past comes into existence with the story.
past
Without a past you can't have a future.
past weapons nuclear
We must unite to make nuclear weapons a horror of the past. Michael Douglas
past my-past week
An astounding thing is that, almost every single week, I have met someone from my past. Michael Aspel
past worry
You don't have to worry about the future, you don't worry about the past - you just explode. Ray Bradbury
past two half
I prefer to see myself as the Janus, the two-faced god who is half Pollyanna and half Cassandra, warning of the future and perhaps living too much in the past—a combination of both.
past college intellectual
Out of the nursery into the college and back into the nursery; there’s your intellectual pattern for the past five centuries or more.
past should-have half
Thus through half-belief, we are often doomed to repeat that very past we should have learned from.
past fire generosity
When rough times have fallen upon our state in the past, Texans have always responded with generosity and an eagerness to help. The compassionate response to the fires has proven that this community spirit is alive and well. Randy Neugebauer
past past-present-and-future past-present
Best there is... past, present and future! Ohhhhh yeahhhh! Randy Savage
past rights progress
Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century. Ralph Neas
past simple judging
I'm simply saying that there is a way to be sane. I'm saying that you can get rid of all this insanity created by the past in you. Just by being a simple witness of your thought processes. It is simply sitting silently, witnessing the thoughts, passing before you. Just witnessing, not interfering not even judging, because the moment you judge you have lost the pure witness. Rajneesh
past reality doors
The reality consists only of now, the present. It has nothing to do with the past and nothing to do with the future. It is so concentrated in this moment that if you can be in this moment, all that you are seeking and searching will be fulfilled. This moment is the door to the divine.
past soul enough
How can I keep my soul in me, so that it doesn't touch your soul? How can I raise it high enough, past you, to other things? Rainer Maria Rilke
pasta lovers huge
I'm a huge pasta and pizza lover. I can eat those every single day. Shay Mitchell
past years rising
We know the surface temperature of the Earth is warming. It has risen by .6 degrees Celsius over the past 100 years. There was a warming trend from the 1890s to the 1940s, cooling from the 1940s to the 1970s, and then sharply rising temperatures from the 1970s to today. George W. Bush
past other-cultures mirrors
It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past.... Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement against that past. George Steiner
past animal history
England will still be England, an everlasting animal, stretching into the future and the past and like all living things having the power to change out of all recognition and yet remain the same. George Orwell
past agreement evil
The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible.
past nineteen 1984-important
He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable.
past sea world
He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the monster. He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable
past achievement fundamentals
In Oceania at the present day, Science, in the old sense, has almost ceased to exist. In Newspeak there is no word for 'Science.' The empirical method of thought, on which all the scientific achievements of the past were founded, is opposed to the most fundamental principles of Ingsoc.
past years race
The only imaginative prose writer of the slightest value who has appeared among the English-speaking races for some years past.
past mind world
If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable - what then?
past men teeth
His time was past, her handmaid Irri declared. No man should live longer than his teeth. George R. R. Martin
past dust done
Great wrongs have been done you, but the past is dust. The future may yet be won ..